More Marching Band

In today's issue of Sports Illustrated On Campus, there was an amusing article about great moments in band history. It was a true/false quiz (which was kind of annoying), but I have distilled the following list of humorous, true, band moments in history:

• 1941: The University of Chicago disbands its marching band--two years after having disbanded its football team.
• 1967: During a nationally televised game against Harvard on ABC, the Princeton band intentionally spells out the letters NBC.
• 1974: On Children's Day in New Haven, Yale's band dedicates a halftime show to birth control.
• 1981: The Brown band visits Columbia, in New York City. During the halftime show the band forms the "I [heart] NY" symbol. Suddenly three saxophone players don stocking masks and begin mugging their fellow performers while other bandsmen pretend not to notice.
• 1981: During a postgame performance a few members of the Stanford band reportedly urinate on the field.
• 1989: After a dean is named at Columbia, band members blockade his office, refusing to disperse until he accepts a list of 10 demands. Among them: "Write a glowing law school recommendation for [the band manager]."

This article isn't up on Sports Illustrated's web site, but last week's cover story about the murder of the Husker soccer player, Jenna Cooper, is here if you missed it.